The attempt has been taken to calculate the density of stars possessing quark matter core using sphere packing concept of crystallography. The quark matter has been taken as solid in nature as predicted in references 36 and 37, and due to immense gravitational pressure at the core of the star the densest packing of quarks as spheres has been assumed to calculate the packing fraction Φ, thus the density ρ of the matter. Three possible types of pickings—mono-sized sphere packing, binary sphere packing and ternary sphere packing, have been worked out using three possible types of quark matter. It has been concluded that no value about the ρ of quark matter can be calculated using binary and ternary packing conditions and for mono-sized packing condition different flavor quark matters of different values in the density have been calculated using results from the experiments done by HI, ZEUS, L3 and CDF Collaborations about the radius limit of quark. For example, for u quark matter ρ ranges from 4.0587 × 10 48 - 7.40038 × 10 48 MeV/c 2 cm 3 using results of L3 Collaboration, for s quark matter 15.91794 × 10 48 - 17.6866 × 10 48 MeV/c 2 cm 3, etc.
Neutron stars are one of the densest stars known in the cosmos. They are formed by the gravitational collapse of some massive stars having inner core mass above Chandrasekhar limit―1.4 Mo [
Moving towards its core composition of super dense matter, the composition of the matter is uncertain. According to different models it may be liquid or solid. One of the models says the core consists of super fluid- neutron―degenerate matter formed mostly by neutrons with some exceptions of protons and electrons [
Between the neutron stars and black holes it has been theorized that there remains one more type of neutron star commonly called as quark star. The mass of quark star falls between mass limit of neutron star and the minimum mass required for the star to become black hole. The whole idea of quark star is hypothetical and no strong confirmation has been observed about the presence of such stars, but the observations taken on stars like RX JI856.5-3754 and 3C58 suggest these stars to be quark stars due to available density above the density prescribed for neutron stars [
It is theorized that neutron stars consisting core of ordinary quark matter, that is, u and d quark matter is stable, under extreme temperatures or pressures. However, quark stars consisting entirely of this ordinary quark matter are highly unstable and therefore dissolve spontaneously in another kind of quark matter commonly called as strange quark matter [
Now let us move to another important aspect of the paper, that is, sphere packing in crystallography. Sphere packing is a possible regular or irregular arrangement of similar or dissimilar spheres in any volume. The spherical packing in 3-dimensional Euclidean space is very common. Basically there are two known arrangements of spheres known these are regular or lattice arrangement and irregular or random arrangement. FCC (face centered cubic) or CCP (cubic close packing) and HCP (hexagonal close packing) are the two unit structures known possible in the close packing of spherically symmetrical and mono sized particles. These two structures have the highest packing density as proved by Gauss in 1831 and originally proposed by Johannes Kepler in 1611 in his so called Kepler’s conjecture theorem [
For close packing of two or more different sized spheres, to calculate the Φ becomes much difficult. Now the APF Φ becomes function of radius ratio between the spheres and sphere concentration over other sized concentrations, like for binary sphere packing the small sphere concentration in the mixture is calculated. Different methods like Monte Carlo [
In the paper we are using the same (mono) sized sphere packing and binary sphere packing concepts to to solve the problem to some extent. A one more packing of three sized spheres which we can call ternary sphere packing has been included about which no work has been yet done. This paper is the preceding paper of previous paper of author Jahangir Ahmad Dar which came in IJAA read reference No. 4 regarding the technique used in the paper to derive value of density. In the previous paper neutrons where taken as spheres and here quarks. We can say this is the second work done on the technique, that is, use of sphere packing in astronomy to derive density of stars.
Different models of neutron star matter suggest different forms and types of quark matter inside the core of the neutron star. However, there is not any form/state of any type of quark matter known of which the exact mass density ρ has been calculated. So the density of core of neutron star has remained a mystery. Here we will use the packing fraction concept well known in crystallography, to discuss and calculate the possible packing and thus the mass density ρ of quark matter inside the core of neutron star. We will try to solve the density by considering three possible solid quark matter types that are possible to exist in the core of the star.
It is well known that neutron stars are balanced by neutron degeneracy pressure [
If n is the number of neutrons that has crushed down to form quark matter occurring volume V then the total number of quarks available in the volume V is 3n, since each neutron contributes 3 quarks-1 u quark and 2 d quarks to the quark matter. The ratio between total number of u quarks and d quarks in volume V will be equal to the ratio between u quarks and d quarks occupying a single neutron, i.e.,
Similarly, in any structure or unit cell created by this binary quark matter, the ratio between u and d quarks occupying the cell must be same
The packing density of this quark matter depends on functions α and χ, i.e., radius ratio between the quarks and the sphere concentration [
where
where Г is Euclid’s function.
To calculate the χ we must calculate the d quark concentration in the matter as they are lesser in size than u quark. If k is the number of u quarks in the cell therefore as per u and d number ratio indicated in the Equation (2), the number of d quarks will be 2k. Thus we have for small sphere concentration in a case as
on the basis of mass difference between u and d quarks we have assumed that they possess different sizes therefore have different radii. However, at this present stage we don’t have any data nor have been done any work regarding sizes of quarks. So it is impossible to know anything about the value of function α and the biggest problem is that we can’t even assume or guess it, so that to use it in deriving the partition function of binary quark matter. Therefore by considering the densest solid core of neutron stars as the quark matter possessing u and d quark flavors with different sizes it is impossible to calculate the density of the core or matter using any crystallography technique. The problem will be same for any other flavored quark matter as per no size of any type of quark is known yet.
In standard model of the particles, neutron consist of three quarks binding together by the exchange of force carrying particles called as gluons symbolized by g. Gluons are the force carrying particles which carry simultaneously color and anticolor and couple to the color charge. In theoretical predictions the mass of gluon, mg is taken as zero [
1. What is the impact on function radius ratio α when there are more than two different sized spheres used for packing or how will α behave for ternary sphere packing.
2. We don’t know radius of gluon even the gluon mass is not known well.
3. We can calculate any sized sphere concentration χ in a any mixture by expanding Equation (5) as
but the effect by other sized spheres on the structure of the cell is not known.
4. No structure is known consisting any ternary sphere packing.
A new method is required to invent for this discussed ternary sphere packing or to solve any ternary sphere packing in any branch of science. In a nutshell by considering gluon as a massive particle and its significant contribution in creating quark-gluon mass for any solid and close packing possible inside any star like neutron star, at this era it is impossible to calculate its packing density and therefore to calculate mass bound inside the region consisting quark-gluon matter, that is the core of neutron star. At this time we can suggest only that the density packing fraction for quark-gluon matter inside the star will be higher than Kepler’s limit or any greatest known packing density in binary sphere packing if the radius of gluon and the number of gluons will be sufficient to fill every vacant void formed between the packing of u and d quarks as shown in
In the figure, the small spheres are considered as gluons g, big sized spheres as u quarks and the remaining sized as d quarks. In the image where the gluon concentration is higher than other regions indicates the void vacancy created by packing of u and d quarks is higher than other voids.
Since we have not been able to calculate the density by considering the quark matter inside the core of the neutron star as a binary sphere packing and ternary sphere packing, we can consider the problem as mono sized spherical quark problem which is the only option for us at this time to imagine the density of the matter in the core of neutron star.
Now the value of α in this case becomes 1 called as Kepler’s limit [
The images above has been taken from the previous work done by the author Jahangir A.D. on neutron stars in the paper ‘’Mass limit of neutron star’’ see reference no. 4.
In both structures coordinate number is 12 and both have the same packing fraction [
mass of this unit cell indicated as M is the total mass of the quarks available in the cell, that is,
where, N is the number of quarks which is 6 and m is the mass of the individual quark.
The densest available packing fraction for HCP and FCC as per Kepler’s Conjecture Theorem is 0.74048…
Rearranging Equation (3), we get
But
Putting the values of
where F = 0.74048. By taking value of × as 3 in Equation (4), that is, considering whole case as a 3-dimensional, we have
Therefore, we have
It is clear that the density of quark matter or the core of neutron star depend on two functions m and r, that is,
Using the above mentioned values in the Equation (11), we have calculated different possible values about the density of mono sized quark-matter and are given in the following
In the table
The density of mono-sized densest packing quark matter will be somewhere between the ranges predicted in the tables as per the limits in radii of quark particles predicted by some successful experiments in the world. The values predicted in the tables are the only values we can consider about the density of densest mono-sized quark matter that is believed to be is available inside the core of neutron stars. In the strange stars like quark stars it is possible at different layers these all densities are possible
We have used packing fraction concept to derive the density of quark matter inside neutron stars. We studied the three cases possible for quark type concentration―mono-sized single flavor packing of quark matter, binary sized u and d flavor packing of quark matter and u and d quark with gluon as ternary sphere packing. Among the all three cases we have concluded that only density of mono-sized case is possible to calculate density ranges
Flavor Of Quark Matter | At Mass of Quark | Using L3 Collaboration Value of r = 0.42 × 10−16 cm ρ = ... × 1048 | Using CDF Collaboration Value of r = 0.79 × 1016 cm ρ = …× 1048 | Using ZEUS Collaboration Value of r = 0.85 × 10−16 cm ρ = ... × 1048 | Using HI Collaboration Value of r = 1.0 × 10−16 cm ρ = ... × 1048 |
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u | 4.0587 | 0.6098 | 0.48959 | 0.30667 | |
7.40038 | 1.11204 | 0.89278 | 0.54828 | ||
D | 9.78769 | 1.47077 | 1.18078 | 0.72515 | |
13.6072 | 2.04472 | 1.64157 | 1.00813 | ||
S | 214.85179 | 32.28535 | 25.91970 | 15.91794 | |
238.724 | 35.87261 | 28.79967 | 17.6866 | ||
C | 2.98405 | 0.44840 | 0.35999 | 0.22108 | |
3.10341 | 0.46634 | 0.37439 | 0.22992 | ||
B | 9.89511 | 1.48692 | 1.19374 | 0.73310 | |
10.05028 | 1.51023 | 1.21246 | 0.74460 | ||
T | 411.34570 | 61.81210 | 49.62471 | 30.47578 | |
417.62415 | 62.75555 | 50.38215 | 30.94093 |
Quark Matter | r Range Using L3 Collaboration Results | r Range Using CDF Collaboration Results | r Range Using ZEUS Collaboration Results | r Range Using HI Collaboration Results |
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U | 4.0587 × 1048 - 7.40038 × 1048 MeV/c2 cm3 | 0.6098 × 1048 - 1.11204 × 1048 MeV/c2 cm3 | 0.48959 × 1048 - 0.89278 × 1048 MeV/c2 cm3 | 0.30667 × 1048 - 0.54828 × 1048 MeV/c2 cm3 |
D | 9.78769 × 1048 - 13.6072 × 1048 MeV/c2 cm3 | 1.47077 × 1048 - 2.04472 × 1048 MeV/c2 cm3 | 1.18078 × 1048 - 1.64157 × 1048 MeV/c2 cm3 | 0.72515 × 1048 - 1.00813 × 1048 MeV/c2 cm3 |
S | 214.85179 × 1048 - 238.724 × 1048 MeV/c2 cm3 | 32.28535 × 1048 - 35.87261 × 1048 MeV/c2 cm3 | 25.91970 × 1048 - 28.79967 × 1048 MeV/c2 cm3 | 15.91794 × 1048 - 17.6866 × 1048 MeV/c2 cm3 |
C | 2.98405 × 1048 - 3.10341 × 1048 GeV/c2 cm3 | 0.44840 × 1048 - 0.46634 × 1048 GeV/c2 cm3 | 0.35999 × 1048 - 0.37439 × 1048 GeV/c2 cm3 | 0.22108 × 1048 - 0.22992 × 1048 GeV/c2 cm3 |
B | 9.89511 × 1048 - 10.05028 × 1048 GeV/c2 cm3 | 1.48692 × 1048 - 1.51023 × 1048 GeV/c2 cm3 | 1.19374 × 1048 - 1.21246 × 1048 GeV/c2 cm3 | 0.73310 × 1048 - 0.74460 × 1048 GeV/c2 cm3 |
T | 411.34570 × 1048 - 417.62415 × 1048 GeV/c2 cm3 | 61.81210 × 1048 - 62.75555 × 1048 GeV/c2 cm3 | 49.62471 × 1048 - 50.38215 × 1048 GeV/c2 cm3 | 30.47578 × 1048 - 30.94093 × 1048 GeV/c2 cm3 |
between two values for every experimental value about the radius of quark predicted by the work of four known Collaborations―HI, ZEUS, L3 and CDF.
Jehangir A.Dar,Pawan KumarSingh,RamSwaroop, (2015) Calculations for Density of Quark Core Consisting of Mono Flavored Closely Packed Quarks inside Neutron Star. International Journal of Astronomy and Astrophysics,05,258-266. doi: 10.4236/ijaa.2015.54029